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Dufferin Street
Dufferin Street
is a major north-south street in
Toronto
and
York Region
,
Ontario
,
Canada
. It is a
concession road
, two concessions (4 km) west of
Yonge Street
. The street starts at the foot of
Lake Ontario
, continues north to Toronto's northern boundary at
Steeles Avenue
with some discontinuities and continues into York Region, where it becomes
York Regional Road 53
. The street is named for
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
, who served as
Governor General of Canada
from 1872 to 1878. In 2003 and 2007, it was voted as one of "Ontario's Worst 20 Roads" in the Ontario's Worst Roads poll organized by the
Canadian Automobile Association
.
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